Health Care Trickeration: John Thune Has a Relapse

In which we discover that, yes, John Thune is as bad as the rest of them.

People I respect consider John Thune one of The Good Ones. The Good Ones being that largely imaginary claque making up the Not Insane wing of the Republican party. I always thought he was an amiable empty suit.

Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.

You must admit, this is high-level why-are-you-hitting-yourself? Trolling, especially on a day when the president seemed close to telling the Supreme Court to stuff itself for even taking the ridiculous King v. Burwell case in the first place. And here's the thing. If what Thune suggests comes to pass, I guarantee you that he will be all over TV blaming the ensuing hardships on the law that he and his colleagues have tried to strangle for six years now. And here's the other thing. It will become an argument Worthy of Respect because, you know, Both Sides are at fault. (Ron Fournier's probably halfway through a column already blaming the president for not finding common ground with the Republicans, and failing at...leadership!) They will turn a deliberate murder into a suicide and enough people will buy it that it never becomes a political liability.

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In brief, they all have the prion disease. It's just occasionally in remission.